JEP 450 (Compact Object Headers) has been targeted for delivery in JDK 24. This currently experimental feature optimizes heap utilization by shrinking the size of the mandatory object header in HotSpo ...

Memory garbage collection is only one of the applications of reference counting; it is also used for deallocation control of system objects, Windows COM objects, and file system blocks or files.

The Java automatic garbage collection process typically operates as a low-priority thread that constantly searches memory for unreachable objects, objects not referenced by any other object ...